Genre(s): Sci-fi, action, thriller
Logline: A teen girl, always thought of as strange, gets her wish to leave her home, but with earth-shattering consequences.
Synopsis: ‘Soul Beneath’ tells the story of Lia, an eighteen year old girl living unhappily with only her Father for comfort. Her father earns enough money for himself and Lia to live comfortably and he often treats her to new clothes, but Lia just isn’t interested. Her interests lie in something far more intergalactic.
The film starts with Lia leaving home, leaving a message for her father about how she is different and cannot stay. The audience is left unsure of how she left due to the bright flashing lights from outside her window enveloping the scene and dissolving into the credits. Throughout the film, there are regular flashbacks from Lia’s life showing the audience how she is different from everyone else and they are made to sympathise with Lia. The audience find out that Lia has left her home to travel the stars on a spaceship with extra-terrestrial beings. She finds comfort with them and through their subtle indoctrination methods, Lia is lead to believe that she is an alien born in a human flesh to observe the human race. She is also given the ability of telekinesis from her new ‘family’ and her ability to feel sadness and empathy are removed from her brain. This indoctrination makes Lia despise her own people and she helps to lead a bloody war against the citizens of Earth. This makes the audience torn about what to think of her. The flashbacks provoke sympathy yet they want to see her as a villain due to her violent actions against her ‘loved ones’. When she sees the bloody corpse of her human father, despite the fact that she has been indoctrinated, she mourns over her father, showing that she is still part human. The film ends with her looking angrily towards the sky and insinuating that she shall take revenge for what the extra-terrestrials did to her.
Introduction in detail: The first shot is a close up shot of a hand writing from the left side of the hand. The camera then cuts to a rear view of a girl sitting hunched over at a desk with a slow zoom towards her. The audience can see newspaper articles pinned to the wall behind her desk though the content of these articles cannot be made out. A voiceover (the audience presumes it is the girl) commences of a girl’s voice reading what sounds like a letter. She is explaining to somebody that she is different, she cannot stay where she is. She is saying how she always knew that she was different somehow and now she finally knows why. As the voiceover is going on, the camera cuts to a shot in front of the girl as she is writing and the audience can see flashing bright lights through the window behind the girl, there are a few cuts between shots to close ups of the girl’s written words on the piece of paper to be a subtle indicator to certain significant points to the later story. Once the voice over has finished, the flashing lights are much more frequent and the camera follows the girl as she walks over to the window. She looks out and smiles, though what she is smiling at is unsure to the audience. Then, the flashing lights get so frequent that the individual flashes merge until the screen is totally white, obscuring the scene, and the titles commence. I’m not quite sure yet how I will do the titles, i.e. will they be in a style that gives away little indications to the story or have them so they give nothing away and the audience are left with a cliff-hanger that (hopefully) wants to make them watch the rest of the film.
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